On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 11:07:15AM +0800, Alex Peng wrote:

> On my Ferrari 4000, OpenSolaris 2008.05, Device Driver Utility
> recognizes that the video card is ATI Radeon X700, but "pkg
> image-update" doesn't utilize this info, it still downloaded/installed
> NVDAgraphics. Why? I just want to update the existing packages, no need
> to have a not-installed device's driver.

image-update is currently very simple in how it determines what to install
-- it upgrades all the packages installed on the system.  That may bring in
new packages if any existing package (such as redist_cluster or
slim_install) has a dependency on a new package.

By default, all device driver packages are installed on your system, which
is why you have NVDAgraphics.  And, due to the simplicity of image-update,
even if you were to explicitly remove that package, it would be reinstalled
because the higher-level clusters you most likely have installed would
bring it in again.  That won't be fixed until we have an intent log to keep
track of what you actually want and don't want on your system.

Danek
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